Between 1880 and 1881, while excavating the ancient city of Sippar (modern Tell Abu Habbah) some 30 kilometers southwest of Baghdad and 69 kilometers north of Babylon, in a campaign for the British Museum that lasted 18 months, the archaeologist of origin Assyrian Hormuzd Rassam found the Temple of
What happened in the city of Angkor already abandoned in the 15th century? Thanks to a coring, researchers were able to go back in time and better understand the decline of the ancient Khmer capital. In the 15th century, the royal city of Angkor Thom was already abandoned. When all the writings h
About 20 km southwest of Soria we find the site archaeological site of the Roman villa La Dehesa . On the one hand one of the most spectacular in Spain, although on the other, a mystery still unsolved, since not enough evidence has been found to confirm what its true use was. Despite the fact that t
Neanderthal man hot water a luxury of our times? It certainly seems not, at least judging by a recent discovery made by researchers from the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, who analyzing a prehistoric shelter on the site of Abric Romani in Catalonia (Spain), t